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Writing - Technical:
- The complete unit below is on different types of Technical Writing:
Writing - Other:
- This lesson is on AP Spanish Literature
- This lesson uses OREOs to teach response writing
- An idea to create a Story by multiple students (Chain Writing)
- This 5 Step Writing Program is aimed at Building Confidence
- This is an interesting lesson on Essay Writing involving a Beach Umbrella
- Another Kinesthetic Approach lesson, this one for Writing Essay Conclusions
- This is a Writing Lesson Plan called Memory Books
- This is a Process Analysis Pre-Writing Activity involving a Recipe for a Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich
- Students create a Newspaper on Computers in this lesson on Typing, Writing, and Reporting
- Here's a lesson for Writing Personal Narratives and using Concept Maps
- An idea for Writing a News Story and taking on the role of Reporters
- Students Research about others and Write Biography Poems in this lesson idea
- Here is a good beginning-of-the-year lesson for introducing essay structure
- Take a fashion-forward approach to outlining with this engaging lesson
- Click here if you're tired of hearing the excuse, "But I didn't know I was plagiarizing!"
- Students write and follow directions to assemble simple puzzles in this lesson
- Here is an end-of-year bulletin board autograph idea
- This lesson uses quarters to inspire response writing
- This activity allows students to move around as they proofread and edit their essays
- This conflict resolution lesson teaches Mediate, Don't Instigate
- In this newspaper lesson, students learn how to use photographs and visual design to convey messages
- To teach the value of editing your work, this teacher uses examples of how popular musicians rewrite their song lyrics
- In this interview idea, students learn about classmates while working on writing and oral presentation skills
- This kinesthetic activity is great for introducing expository and process writing
- The question "Does background music affect your writing?" is answered here
- Tinker Toys and digital cameras are used in this direction writing exercise
- Writing every related word that comes to mind is what this activity is all about
- You can create "Proofreading Pandemonium" with this fun kinesthetic activity
- In this lesson, students write a mock television interview from a pet's perspective
- This beginning-of-the-year "ME Box" idea helps students focus their writing
- In this lesson, students turn a fairy tale into a television news report
- In "Writer's Puzzle," the student composes an essay with a beginning, middle, and end piece.
- In this lesson, students will use word referents to enhance word choice and enrich vocabulary
- In this journalism lesson, students write captions and headlines for provided articles
- This personal narrative prelude lesson is on voice and topic selection
- This is a lesson on summarizing
- This lesson stresses support and elaboration in writing well-developed character trait paragraphs
- Here students learn to recognize the writing trait of voice in books, music and art
- In this writing exercise, students create a Memory-A-Day box as a gift for someone special
- When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant is used here to model descriptive writing
- Students identify and arrange the elements of a news story here and write one based on given data
- This A-Z endangered animal research project requires a triorama of creative writing projects
- Here students write personal mission statements
- This "describe a place" writing lesson utilizes a reproduction, semi-production and production technique
- Students create a newspaper about their most admired person in these Writing Workshop activities
Other / Multiple Topics:
- A collection of some fun Christmas Activity ideas
- An interesting lesson plan on Marketing a Product, including Making Commercials
- Here's a Project idea for making a Book into a Movie
- This is an interesting idea where students "Create A Holiday"
- The book "Awakenings" is used in this lesson on Vocabulary, Critical Thinking, Predicting, and Writing
- Here are some Reading and Writing ideas collectively called "The Hat Connection"
- The History of Radio for Communication and Entertainment is the topic of this lesson
- Improve Listening Comprehension with Music
- This "Cubicle Reading and Writing" lesson is appropriate for Back To School time
- Students develop their own Spelling and Grammar game boards in this lesson idea
- Here's a Multidisciplinary lesson on Punctuation, Conclusions, and Inferences
- This Language Arts game is good for reviewing Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar, etc.
- A fun group activity for learning about your classmates
- Here's a new ice breaker idea - have groups perform a commercial for a new use for an old object
- Are your students murdering the English language? Then try this word funeral idea.
- This lesson is so fat... it contains four comedic hyperbole worksheets
- This is a five-day unit on helping a teen find, apply for, get and keep a job
Art Connections:
- This calligraphy lesson is called "Write Me A Picture!"
- This is an idea for a lesson on the art of bookmaking
- Here's a lesson on mythology dioramas and set design as a career
- This outstanding 3-week multidisciplinary fresco art unit features lessons on painters, symmetry, pigment, color wheel, primary colors, Italian Renaissance, solutions, chromatography, molecules, and atoms; plus a good museum education bibliography.
- Students study masters of surrealism and create surrealist computer art cubes in this two-week lesson
- In this get-to-know-you idea, students create a self-portrait collage with their favorite things
- In this "Write Like An Egyptian" idea, students draw a short story using their own hieroglyphics
- This is an integrated Aboriginal Dot Painting lesson plan
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- This lesson is on Black History Month
- Here's a large, well-developed unit on The Renaissance:
- This idea involves Research, Writing and creating a Time Capsule covering the 20th Century
- Here are some Worksheet ideas to be used before beginning a lesson
- This lesson idea is on Ben Franklin's Virtues, and coming up with Virtues for the 21st Century
- This lesson is for creating a PowerPoint Presentation on the Revolutionary War
- Titled "This Is Your Life," this lesson involves a Family Tree, Interviewing, Childhood Treasures, and Writing
- This lesson is on John F. Kennedy, the 1960 election (compared to the 2000 election), and Foreign Policy
- This lesson looks at how a Bill Becomes Law
- Here are some Instructional Ideas using "Super Pop-Up Reports for American History"
- This lesson helps students Understand Cultural Differences with "The House on Mango Street"
- "Role Playing for Empathy" teaches about other Cultures and Writing Plays as well
- Here are several good ideas for a unit on the Trail of Tears
- Here's an idea that will help get students excited about geography
- Posing as 1788 journalists, students create a newpaper front page to share their viewpoints on the ratification of the constitution
- This multi-discipline lesson has students discover the geography and cultural history of an area while creating a travel journal on a budget
- This is an outstanding differentiated learning project about Ancient Egypt
- To demonstrate their Civil War knowledge, students write a diary entry or letter from the period in this lesson
- In this lesson, students will experience Tiananmen Square
- Here's an election year idea: students watch and critique televised candidate debates and then hold their own
- In this election idea, students make "T" charts of the candidate's views on issues, and vote based on "Just the Facts"
- In this holiday idea, students present a family report and collage to their family
- Students will create a picture book biography in this thorough 7-day unit
- The relevance of ancient Roman architecture, culture, and language are explored in this Pantheon lesson
- This is an African-American history research scavenger hunt
- This is a lesson on voting and holding office
- In this unit, students serve on the United Nations Human Rights Council and develop a statement on Darfur
- This is the study guide for the Karma Tycoon On-Line Video Strategy Game sponsored by Do Something, JPMorgan Chase and 9MMEDIA.
In this free and popular social entrepreneurship game, kids help their communities and learn financial responsibility running their own U.S. nonprofit organizations.
- Unit Introduction
- About Us
- Karma Tycoon Program Description
- Learning Goals and Links to Classroom Learning
- How to Play Karma Tycoon
- Vocabulary
- Cities and Nonprofit Data
- Pre-Game Lesson Plan 1 - What Is a Nonprofit Organization?
- Pre-Game Lesson Plan 2 - City and Nonprofit Internet Learning Hunt
- Pre-Game Lesson Plan 3 - The Importance of Managing Your Finances
- Post-Game Lesson Plan 1 - Devising a Budget for Your Nonprofit
- This Ballou High School Band Documentary Film Unit challenges students to improve their schools and community and to consider education as a civil right
- This George "W" Bush movie writing assignment taps issues of the presidency, invasion of privacy, international relations, etc.
- After reading about the causes of WWI, students make pro- and anti-war posters here and debate their positions
- Students create a medieval crusade journal here after reading "Queen Eleanor: Independent Spirit of the Medieval World"
- This lesson analyzes African American folktales, songs, and hymns during the time of slavery
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